GNU bug report logs - #79955
emacs 30.2 test failure on ppc64el (-O3)

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Package: emacs; Reported by: Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@HIDDEN>; Done: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@HIDDEN>; Maintainer for emacs is bug-gnu-emacs@HIDDEN.

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Hello,

Eli Zaretskii [17/Jan  2:18pm +02] wrote:
>> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@HIDDEN>
>> Cc: Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@HIDDEN>,  79955@HIDDEN=
.org
>> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:59:08 +0000
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii [03/Jan 12:04pm +02] wrote:
>> > Any ideas or suggestions for how to handle this problem?  It is not
>> > clear to me whether this is a problem in Emacs or in the library, but
>> > I tend to think it's in the library, in which case we should close
>> > this, IMO.
>>
>> This sort of thing has to be investigated within the distro, I think.
>> Ubuntu passes many exotic compile options, including enabling LTO (which
>> Debian does not).
>>
>> Gianfranco, I think that you need to rule out the problem being in the
>> library, before there is much useful work that we can do here at
>> upstream.
>
> Should we close this bug report, then?

Yes, I think that makes sense, and we can reopen/merge if more
actionable information becomes available.

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Sean Whitton

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Notification sent to Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@HIDDEN>:
bug acknowledged by developer. Full text available.

Reply sent to Sean Whitton <spwhitton@HIDDEN>:
You have taken responsibility. Full text available.